Aeria rebuts Bless North America cancellation rumors

We deal with a lot of rumors here, and while we generally filter out the entirely implausible ones, usually there are a lot of rumors that might be true until it turns out they’re completely true or utterly false. This time, however, the Bless Online rumor mill has produced a rumor that turns out to be nothing at all.

Over the weekend, the teaser site for Bless Online being published by Aeria went down unexpectedly, with no official word as to why. That prompted players to panic and spread rumors that the title had been quietly dropped off of the schedule. However, other fans on Reddit were skeptical of the rumor, and with good reason.

We reached out to the studios involved ourselves; here’s what a representative for Aeria told us:

“This maintenance is due to a migration to a new data center for all our services from game to portal, so there is no need to be worried. It’ll improve the experience of the players. However, we are still working on it and the website will be back online soon! On the side, we are working closely with Neowiz on the gameplay improvement aimed for the North American and European version!”

So you can stop panicking now. And then you can check out the team’s latest video teaser.

MASSIVELY OVERHEARD

“That’s the real fear, I think: that anyone at Blizzard could look at an expansion that effectively destroyed Heroic dungeons, crafting, dailies, and much of the socialization of the game, and call it a win.”